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• Human-caused damage to environment impacts global water

  
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  WNN Earth Watch (WNN/VOA) Bonn, GERMANY, WEST EUROPE: Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun where humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers more than 11,000 years ago. Scientists are meeting in Bonn, Germany May ...
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• U.S. Energy: the New Reality

  
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  Chatham House / by John Mitchell http://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/191405 The trend of rising US dependence on imports of foreign oil and natural gas has been abruptly reversed, as a result of falling domestic demand for oil and increasing domestic supplies. This trend is likely to continue ...
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• Britain can’t afford to surrender to the greens on shale gas

  
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  Britain that has large coal reserves needs to have shale gas. It can clear the air, and lesson the need from other energy sources. Most of us have by now heard about the US shale gas revolution. In little more than six years, shale gas has reduced America’s gas prices to a third of what they are in Europe, ...
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• Improved Ionic Liquid Pretreatments of Lignocellulose

  
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  Ionic liquid pretreatments show great potential as a biomass pretreatment for dissolving lignocellulose and helping to hydrolyze the resulting aqueous solution into fuel sugars.  But the best of these ionic liquids so far have required the use of expensive enzymes. Blake Simmons, a chemical engineer who heads the ...
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• A New Process to Make Steel

  
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  Donald Sadoway, the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at MIT found that a process called molten oxide electrolysis could use iron oxide from the lunar soil to make oxygen in abundance, with no special chemistry. He tested the process using lunar-like soil from Meteor Crater in Arizona – which contains ...
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• An Update on Andrea Rossi and the E-Cat

  
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  Yesterday Sterling D. Allan of PESN and Frank Acland of E-CatWorld conducted a one and a half hour interview with Andrea Rossi hosted by Gary Hendershot on his SmartScarecrow service regarding developments in the E-Cat technology based on the cold fusion technology called “LENR” for Low Energy Nuclear ...
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• EPA May Restore High Compression Engines

  
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  Back in March the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announced a plan to cut the amount of sulfur allowed in gasoline. In the “small print” was an audacious reversal of policy that seeks to solve the three leading ethanol challenges in one move with higher compression.   The idea is deep in the 938-page text ...
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• New Mexico County Is First In Nation To Ban Fracking & Oil Drilling

  
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  Map of New Mexico high-lighting Mora County (image: public domain ) Mora County, New Mexico, has become the first county in the nation to ban natural gas ‘fracking’ and oil drilling, according to a report on Grist.org. Mora County –currently suffering from a severe drought — is located near Santa Fe and has ...
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• A Big Boost For US Oil Reserves

  
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  The United States Geological Survey (USGS) released the newest oil and gas resource assessment of the Williston Basin for the Bakken Formation in North Dakota and Montana.   The new reserve in the Williston is an assessment for the Three Forks Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.  Together it’s a ...
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• Progress On Understanding Antimatter

  
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  In the popular culture antimatter is seen as a science fiction energy source of immense power.  Popularized in the Star Trek sets of TV series and motion pictures the wondering minds number in the millions worldwide.  But so far we know very little factual data.  It’s worth looking into as the fact is the meeting ...
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• A Deal for a Molten Salt Reactor in Canada

  
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  Terrestrial Energy Inc. (TEI) founded in late 2012 with Dr. David LeBlanc’s patent-pending Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technology has oil sands production company partners and a plan for oil sand taxes to pay for the MSR development.  The U.S. investment in nuclear power using technologies that doesn’t produce an ...
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• RFS Under Fire: History, Significance and Current Issues

  
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  Unquestionably, the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is the most important policy affecting the U.S. biofuels industry. It supports the market for first-generation biofuels, creates the market for second-generation biofuels and it is vital to boosting the nation’s reliance on advanced biofuels from ...
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• Tom Donilon – Global Energy and Climate is a National Security Issue

  
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  On April 24, the President’s National Security Advisor, Tom Donilon , spoke at Columbia University’s launch of its new Center on Global Energy Policy. Donilon spoke at length on the national security aspects of energy and climate change. Below is a compilation of some of the highlights of his speech. Why it ...
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• A Better Simpler Flow Battery For the Grid

  
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  Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that might make solar and wind energy major suppliers to the electrical grid. An electrical grid’s tolerate of large and sudden power fluctuations from ...
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• World’s #1 Bottled Water Seller Wants to Privatize Water Supply

  
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  Doug Hornig and Alex Daley with Casey Research comment on how the World Bank’s Ismail Serageldin put it so succinctly: “The wars of the 21st century will be fought over water.” With that revelation in mind, the 68-year-old Nestlé chair Peter Brabeck has raised some cogent issues regarding water. Brabeck ...
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